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Topic: Complaint: Sebelius’ illegal campaign trip for Obama worse than we thought |
Complaint: Sebelius’ illegal campaign trip for Obama worse than we thought
Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 1/30/2013 9:23:07 PM
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| Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius violated federal law by campaigning for President Obama on the taxpayers’ dime, but now that initial violation has the Democratic National Committee and an HHS aide in the spotlight for related alleged infractions. A nonprofit government watchdog filed a complaint alleging that the DNC violated campaign finance law by misreporting the money it spent to reimburse HHS for Sebelius’ trip in a way that masked the fact that the Hatch Act, a ban on political campaigning by government employees working in their official capacity,
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Comments: And just what will be done about it? We no longer have the rule of law in this country as it applies to Democrats. If she was a Republican you know this would be a whole different story.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Bobn.T, 1/30/2013 9:31:46 PM (No. 9149547)
She´s got a "D" after her name so nothing will happen.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
TakeBackAmerica, 1/30/2013 9:41:43 PM (No. 9149561)
The America we knew is gone. Those people can now do anything they want whenever they want to do it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Cleanhousein2012, 1/30/2013 9:56:28 PM (No. 9149576)
It´s not like the repubs will do anything about it. They´ll just hold hearings so they dn´t have to go home and face their constituents.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 1/30/2013 10:07:51 PM (No. 9149582)
I don´t think we know the half of what is going on in this transparent admin.
Does anyone in the Rep Party think they will be re-elected or they just don´t care anymore, because after all, they are set for life ?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
wildcat1, 1/30/2013 10:34:21 PM (No. 9149608)
Gov. Brownback is attacked relentlessly by the left-stream media in Kansas. Queen Kathleen Sebelius has fundraisers at Cedar Crest (governor´s mansion) and now this. Crickets chirping.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
navybrat, 1/30/2013 11:33:59 PM (No. 9149665)
This woman is absoutely creepy in addition to being dishonest. Make her pay a fine or serve time in jail. Dims get away with breaking the law.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 1/31/2013 4:12:37 AM (No. 9149759)
I´d rather have them investigate the +$3B Sebilius funneled to 3rd party bag holders over the past 3 years...in prep for executing ObieCare & supporting sterilization & abortions worlwide.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Bad Dog, 1/31/2013 7:18:17 AM (No. 9149897)
This is the woman who, as Governor of Kansas, protected the late-term abortion doctor in Wichita. (Who was later killed by someone else.)
Woman´s Right to Choose...... this woman chose to travel on taxpayer dime. So?
What DIFFerence does it make noooooow?!!!!!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
altoona, 1/31/2013 7:21:35 AM (No. 9149906)
Ain´t it the truth, #5. Lib press has a constant drumbeat against GOP governors. I see in PA and know about it in FL, yet little miss hatchet face can skate, no matter what laws she breaks.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Ruhn, 1/31/2013 7:32:32 AM (No. 9149927)
Sooner or later, Karma will come back in spades to Cruella DeVille.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Gretchen, 1/31/2013 7:44:01 AM (No. 9149949)
For goodness´ sake, this is Jezebel we´re talking about. What does one expect?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Judith, 1/31/2013 7:48:08 AM (No. 9149959)
What happens in a schoolroom when one student is allowed to disregard all the rules? The other students eventually join in the misbehavior. Perhaps the dems blatant disregard for our laws, and the media´s apparent approval of those actions, will lead this country to become lawless. If that is the plan, then we see why the huge arming of homeland security.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 1/31/2013 7:52:36 AM (No. 9149970)
At least the outraged democrat prosecutors put Martha Stewart in jail for making a few thousand, not having the inside knowledge of a John Kerry making $193 million, or the Obama protection Sebelius enjoys, Harry Reid´s land frauds, Obama land swaps, Hillary´s future trades, Al Gore´s planet horror fraud, Blagojevich senate sale scheme, William Jefferson´s freezer cash deposits, Jackson Jr. home construction appropriations, Jesse Sr and Sharpton´s extortion rackets. Theres money to be had in the democrat party.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Blackops, 1/31/2013 7:54:34 AM (No. 9149982)
Number 3 has it spot on. Hearings and ankle grab compromise is all they are good for these days.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Blackops, 1/31/2013 7:56:34 AM (No. 9149986)
Meant "are all they..." No coffee yet.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
pineledger, 1/31/2013 8:40:24 AM (No. 9150088)
Kathleen Sibelius is a type we see around academia -- it´s like she has an army of doppelgangers. Very smooth, very selfish, and eminently corruptible, same hairdo and wardrobe. It´s incredible.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
saucy, 1/31/2013 8:47:08 AM (No. 9150104)
..and she´s Catholic?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
jofel, 1/31/2013 8:58:19 AM (No. 9150138)
#18 Most of the lefties in the "democratic" evil party are mostly Catholic CINOS.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
udanja99, 1/31/2013 8:58:24 AM (No. 9150139)
She´s about as Catholic as Mohammed Atta and just as dangerous.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
MsZzroyal, 1/31/2013 9:38:04 AM (No. 9150232)
Remember when Governor of Kansas...she could send out State Income Tax Refund checks. Bankrupting or nearly bankrupting the state.
Her father was Governor of Ohio at one time nearly bankrupting the state.
She didn´t pay her fair share of Federal income taxes and state taxes.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
kiwinews, 1/31/2013 10:04:17 AM (No. 9150294)
Her candidate won. Any unpleasantness for her after this fact will be mitigated by the powerful. This was calculated.No matter what happens, he and his are in for four more years. The dems take care of their own, maybe she´ll get a job at Revlon.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Adam, 1/31/2013 10:16:32 AM (No. 9150320)
"what difference, at this point, does it make?"
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
EnsignO´Toole, 1/31/2013 10:26:43 AM (No. 9150343)
Hatch Act? Ironically the Hatch Act of 1939 was named for a Democrat Senator.
For those who haven´t studied the history of the Hatch Act (I hadn´t either) here is a tidbit about it from Ask.com
Widespread allegations that local Democratic Party politicians used employees of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the congressional elections of 1938 provided the immediate impetus for the passage of the Hatch Act....
Despite that investigation´s inconclusive findings, many in both parties determined to take action against the growing power of the WPA and its Chief Administrator, Harry Hopkins, an intimate of the president. The Act was sponsored by Senator Carl Hatch, a Democrat from New Mexico. At the time, Roosevelt was struggling to purge the Democratic party of its more conservative members[bold print is mine] who were increasingly aligned with the administration´s Republican opponents.
The president considered vetoing the legislation or allowing it to become law without his signature, but instead signed it on the last day he could do so. His signing message welcomed the legislation as if he had called for it[bold is mine] and emphasized the protection his administration would provide for political expression on the part of public employees.
Sounds like something Barry would do - take credit for something that isn´t his!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
starboard, 1/31/2013 10:31:07 AM (No. 9150359)
Katheleen Mengela Sebelius. Not a warm or appealing woman.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
chicodon, 1/31/2013 10:48:27 AM (No. 9150405)
#8 That is precisely why Obama hired her.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
RancherJack, 1/31/2013 11:06:06 AM (No. 9150453)
#1 x 10
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
capt scurvey, 1/31/2013 11:09:19 AM (No. 9150463)
Jump on that, Holder, wouldja?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
peterfleming, 1/31/2013 12:24:02 PM (No. 9150644)
#14 stablemoney (above) brilliantly breezes over a dozen familiar acts of theft and fraud by the ridiculous clowns we call "leaders".....all of them protected by ignoring the Constitution, lawlessness and Diane Sawyer. How can you not be a thief in the Beltway, when all that fake money is oozing bucketsful out of the Fed every day, and you know the entire media, led by Diane Sawyer, will look the other way and protect you and your moeny stealing crimes? It´s open house to theft and waste in DC. That´s the way it is. And our exemplary Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Darrel Issa, Michelle Bachman, even Ron Paul do not run about all day screaming and shoutingabout this 24/7 grand theft. No, they only talk about one good issue at a time. They, too, keep their mouths SHUT !
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
3XALADY, 1/31/2013 12:37:29 PM (No. 9150672)
#29 to wit: Jon F´n Cary´s OWN fortune of either $170 or $190 million. It didn´t come from his salary.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
kono, 1/31/2013 12:51:36 PM (No. 9150701)
Oh, but restrictions like the Hatch Act are meant to keep people in-line who don´t have a conscience, like Republicans and Conservatives. Liberals and Democrats are higher-minded and higher-principled, moral, conscientious people, though -- THEY can do whatever they want in any situation, because whatever they see as best to do MUST be the right thing... /heavy-sarcasm
[sick of the MSM culture for treating every misstep on the Right - no matter how little - as a capital offense, while treating every misstep on the Left - no matter how egregious - as an excuse to criticize the Right for even bothering to notice]
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
MsZzroyal, 1/31/2013 12:53:57 PM (No. 9150707)
I should have typed "couldn´t" pay instead of could pay
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
wexfordcounty, 1/31/2013 1:53:23 PM (No. 9150803)
And knowing what a great intellect Sebelius is her response would be: "Hatch Act? This is outrageous, I took no one over state lines for immoral purposes."
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Charactercounts, 1/31/2013 2:02:39 PM (No. 9150817)
She´ll take responsibility for her mistake. That is all. Nothing else will happen.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
walcb, 1/31/2013 5:32:33 PM (No. 9151130)
Some interesting posts--Dimocrats are lawless and the Repubs are guilty of not corraling them.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
kanzan, 1/31/2013 6:13:42 PM (No. 9151200)
She used to use the fainting-audience-member routine in Kansas. Pathetic. Even the line "Please stand back and let the first responders do their job." Then the ´responders´ would carry the ´fainter´ out on a stretcher and they´d all sit around outside drinking beer. I see that Obama uses it, too.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
blueline, 1/31/2013 6:22:05 PM (No. 9151216)
It was a great help to me when I realized that these professional politicians only care about ONE thing: staying elected. Keeping their position of power is their goal. Tactics vary, but the goal is the same. So the demoncrats buy votes with stolen money, and the repukeicans keep their mouths shut when told to by the media. Inside the beltway, everybody stays happy. Outside it, we toil, and boil.
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